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American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials

Vol. 103, no. 6        June 2018 Table of Contents

LETTERS
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UHP Ti-chondrodite in the Zermatt-Saas serpentinite: Constraints on a new tectonic scenario
Pietro Luoni, Gisella Rebay, Maria Iole Spalla, and Davide Zanoni
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HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
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Crystallography on Mars: Curiosity’s Bragging right
Michael A. Velbel
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: MECHANISMS, RATES, AND TIMESCALES OF GEOCHEMICAL TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN THE CRUST AND MANTLE
839
Al diffusion in quartz
Nicholas D. Tailby, Daniele J. Cherniak, and E. Bruce Watson
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: MARTIAN ROCKS AND MINERALS: PERSPECTIVES FROM ROVERS, ORBITERS AND METEORITES
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Relationships between unit-cell parameters and composition for rock-forming minerals on Earth, Mars, and other extraterrestrial bodies
Shaunna M. Morrison, Robert T. Downs, David F. Blake, Anirudh Prabhu, Ahmed Eleish, David T. Vaniman, Douglas W. Ming, Elizabeth B. Rampe, Robert M. Hazen, Cherie N. Achilles, Allan H. Treiman, Albert S. Yen, Richard V. Morris, Thomas F. Bristow, Steve J. Chipera, Philippe C. Sarrazin, Kim V. Fendrich, John Michael Morookian, Jack D. Farmer, David J. Des Marais, and Patricia I. Craig
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Crystal chemistry of martian minerals from Bradbury Landing through Naukluft Plateau, Gale crater, Mars
Shaunna M. Morrison, Robert T. Downs, David F. Blake, David T. Vaniman, Douglas W. Ming, Robert M. Hazen, Allan H. Treiman, Cherie N. Achilles, Albert S. Yen, Richard V. Morris, Elizabeth B. Rampe, Thomas F. Bristow, Steve J. Chipera, Philippe C. Sarrazin, Ralf Gellert, Kim V. Fendrich, John Michael Morookian, Jack D. Farmer, David J. Des Marais, and Patricia I. Craig
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: PLANETARY PROCESSES AS REVEALED BY SULFIDES AND CHALCOPHILE ELEMENTS
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Petrogenesis of martian sulfides in the Chassigny meteorite
Jean-Pierre Lorand, Sylvain Pont, Vincent Chevrier, Ambre Luguet, Brigitte Zanda, and Roger Hewins
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Immiscible sulfide melts in primitive oceanic magmas: Evidence and implications from picrite lavas (Eastern Kamchatka, Russia)
Dmitry P. Savelyev, Vadim S. Kamenetsky, Leonid V. Danyushevsky, Roman E. Botcharnikov, Maya B. Kamenetsky, Jung-Woo Park, Maxim V. Portnyagin, Paul Olin, Stepan P. Krasheninnikov, Folkmar Hauff, and Michael E. Zelenski
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: DYNAMICS OF MAGMATIC PROCESSES
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Snapshots of primitive arc magma evolution recorded by clinopyroxene textural and compositional variations: The case of hybrid crystal-rich enclaves from Capo Marargiu Volcanic District (Sardinia, Italy)
Vanni Tecchiato, Mario Gaeta, Silvio Mollo, Olivier Bachmann, Albrecht von Quadt, and Piergiorgio Scarlato
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SPECIAL COLLECTION: HIGH-GRADE METAMORPHISM, ANATEXIS, AND GRANITE MAGMATISM
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Three-dimensional distribution of primary melt inclusions in garnets by X-ray microtomography
Matteo Parisatto, Alice Turina, Giuseppe Cruciani, Lucia Mancini, Luca Peruzzo, and Bernardo Cesare
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REGULAR ARTICLE
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Visible and short-wave infrared reflectance spectroscopy of selected REE-bearing silicate minerals
David J. Turner, Benoit Rivard, and Lee A. Groat
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Determination of Al/Si order in sillimanite by high angular resolution electron channeling X-ray spectroscopy, and implications for determining peak temperatures of sillimanite
Yohei Igami, Takahiro Kuribayashi, and Akira Miyake
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Ascent rates of rhyolitic magma at the onset of three caldera-forming eruptions
Madison L. Myers, Paul J. Wallace, Colin J.N. Wilson, James M. Watkins, and Yang Liu
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Temperature dependence of Raman shifts and line widths for Q0 and Q2 crystals of silicates, phosphates, and sulfates
H. Wayne Nesbitt, G. Michael Bancroft, and Grant S. Henderson
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Single-crystal elastic properties of minerals and related materials with cubic symmetry
Thomas S. Duffy
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Sodium amphibole in the post-glaucophane high-pressure domain: The role of eckermannite
Harriet Howe, Alison R. Pawley, and Mark D. Welch
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Non-hydrostatic stress field orientation inferred from orthopyroxene (Pbca) to low-clinoenstatite (P21/c) inversion in partially dehydrated serpentinites
Maxime Clément, José Alberto Padrón-Navarta, Andréa Tommasi, and David Mainprice
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BOOK REVIEW
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BOOK REVIEW
Michael Foerster
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